Yesterday fatigue caught up with me after 5 rides covering just under 100 miles and 2.2 km climbing in 6 days. In some ways it was perfect timing as it allowed me to replace my gear cables without feeling too fed up about missing the trails.

The big question for me is: what sort of concrete are garage floors made of to enable them to swallow up things – like the cable tensioning spring that just happened to jump from my hands?